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""rca" jacks on your television audio output..."

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Sounds like your amplifier does not have any digital decoders, so you will have to send an analog signal to it. This is usually done with the red and white, (right and left channel) "rca" jacks on your television audio output.
I assume you are trying to send the digital signal from your tv tuner, so the television will be doing the decoding from digital to analog before sending out to the amplifier.
If you would like to use a better digital decoder than that in your television, I can only assume that someone makes an external one, but 99 percent of listeners won`t be able to tell the difference, so you can just use the analog RCA outputs of your television to your RCA inputs on your amplifier, unless, of course, you have very discerning ears.

Someone said: I was asleep at the switch. Of course there are external digital to analog converters, (DAC's, and Cambridge Audio comes to mind for one), but I couldn't see spending dozens to hundreds of dollars, for a broadcast tv signal, when you have internal DAC's in both your TV, (it would be highly unusual for an lcd tv not to), and also in your satelite and cable receivers.
If you would like better quality DAC's I would buy a new amplifier or home theater receiver and send the digital signal through, (in order of quality from best to not as good), an HDMI cable, a digital coaxial rca cable, or an optical cable.

"And the tv then sends its audio out through the optical cable into..."

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If you`re hooking an HDMI device INTO a tv, then you`re using up an HDMI input, in other words, putting video and audio INTO the TV. Optical audio, however, is an output, meaning, you`re taking audio OUT of the tv. So yes, optical is meant to be used in conjunction with HDMI, as the TV is the receiver of these audio devices, and the TV then sends its audio out through the optical cable into your stereo receiver.

"If there is an hdmi cable output from your television..."

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You need to examine the audio and video output connections on the back of your LCD. If there is an HDMI cable output from your television, then yes, you can use it to connect to your home theater. You`ll want to use the audio portion of the HDMI connection because your LCD is going to be the video source anyways... no need to send the video to your home theater receiver.

"In the back where it says "digital optical audio"..."

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You can take a digital optical cable and plug it into your AppleTV in the back where it says "digital optical audio". Then take the other end of that optical cable and put it into the "digital audio in" of your receiver. This will pass the audio from your AppleTV to your surround sound speakers.

"There is probably a coaxial audio or a hdmi out cable..."

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All the newer TVs have some sort of way to transfer audio if there is a digital tuner in it. If you don`t see an optical cable connection, there is probably a coaxial audio or a HDMI out cable. Use either of these to transfer audio/video out of your TV to a home theater receiver.

"Digital optical audio cables are the best way to transfer audio in your home theater..."

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Digital optical audio cables are the best way to transfer audio in your home theater. Usually it transfers audio from your satellite / DVD / etc to your receiver so you can get all 5.1 channels of audio.

Someone said: There is nothing Toslink can do that HDMI can't also do. Plus, HDMI has support for uncompressed sound formats like Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. If you have an HDMI-receiver there is no need to use optical cables at all.

" the optical out works independantly of the tv speakers..."

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I believe you just plug it in and it is instant on. The Optical Out works independantly of the TV Speakers. You have to turn down the TV speakers and make sure that Optical In is selected on your receiver.

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